The Cultural Olympiad is about everyone. It is about those inside and outside this organisation. When I started here a year ago, as Jude Kelly’s Personal Secretary, I used to chant “I’m not corporate, I’m creative…” . We work in Canary Wharf, everybody knows that. We are a corporation and that can seem alienating, especially in the field I’m in, but at the heart are people who genuinely believe in what they do. We are working to bring outsiders in, opening up the opportunity of the 2012 Games. The truth of it is creativity is exactly the kind of thinking we work with here.
When I’m not here I’m based on Brick Lane, working with designers, stylists, and writers encouraging new and emerging talent to get active and develop their skills through an international magazine. When creative professionals ask me how they can get involved in the Cultural Olympiad I always say- “You have to figure out how to include yourself.” Read about the Cultural Olympiad, watch the Vox Pops on the website, talk to each other about your ideas - start thinking like insiders.
It’s your Games, it’s your Cultural Olympiad, what are you going to do about it?
